"Waiting On" Wednesday: Friendship Bread

By Darien Gee
Publication Date: April 19
From FriendshipBreadKitchen.com:

In Avalon, Illinois, a woman and her young daughter return home to find a plate of Amish Friendship Bread along with a bag of starter on their doorstep. There’s no note, just a yellow sticky with the words, “I hope you enjoy it.” The instructions tell them to feed the starter over a 10-day period, then bake two loaves and share the remaining starter with three other people.

At the insistence of her five-year old daughter, Julia Evarts reluctantly follows the instructions. Soon, the bread and its starter are making their way through the town of Avalon, touching the lives of its residents in ways both comical and unexpected.

I stumbled across this blog almost by accident and have been inspired to take part, so much so that I actively went out to look for a book "to look forward to". I trawled the Amazon site for pre-releases and was absolutely thrilled to bits to find that the next Earth's Children book is due to be published this year. I love this series and have been waiting for about 10 years for book 5 to be published and if it wasn't for your blog then I wouldn't have known it was due out in a couple of months. THANK YOU!!!!!! I'm so excited now, can't wait for March!

I've actually been given Amish Friendship Bread before, it really is a remarkable experience when you think about how it starts out with one person and ends up touching so many people. I bet this is really great "slice of life" book. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Jill and everyone! What a lovely surprise to stumble upon your blog and see such a nice mention of FRIENDSHIP BREAD. Thank you! The ARE's are out this week and my publisher is giving away copies (http://ballantine.atrandom.com) and there will also be a giveaway at the Friendship Bread Kitchen (currently parked on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/fbkitchen). I'd love to hear from any of you and wish you all the best in 2011!